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Perhaps you saw on the Evening News the destruction of Artifacts at the Mosul Museum in Iraq. I may be closer and more passionate about this than most readers due to being an artist and a former high school art teacher, but I would like to explain why it is important for us as a people.
We are the inheritors of the Western civilization. Part of that inheritance is our system of democratic government, judicial process, freedom of expression, privacy rights, and the freedom to choose a religion without threat of persecution. These examples and other freedoms are guaranteed us in the Bill of Rights.